White House doubled classified documents

White House doubled classified documents
WASHINGTON, April 30 (UPI) --

More than 80 U.S. government agencies collectively reported making 15.6 million decisions in 2004 to classify information, nearly double the number in 2001.

By keeping secret so many directives and actions, the administration has precluded the public -- and Congress -- from knowing about some of the most significant decisions and acts of the White House, the Chicago Tribune reported.

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the administration has based much of its need for secrecy on the imperative of protecting national security at a time of war. Yet experts say President George W. Bush and his closest advisers demonstrated their proclivity for privacy well before Sept. 11.

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There is no way that there are 15.6 million documents, ops, decisions, that need to be classified in one year unless your classifying them by the word. It also doesn't seem to help because the White House, State, the CIA, and Congress appear to be in serious need of a 'good plumber' from the amount of 'leaks' they have.

Here again we have government 'gone security mad' and yet they want to allow millions of 'non-citizens to dictate policy' to the rest of us. And they also want to issue a blanket amnesty to some of the worst trash in North America.

Not long before the French Revolution one of the king's advisers returned from a trip around France. The adviser related to the king, "Sire the country is ungovernable!" The king had the adviser tossed into prison. Shortly the French Revolution broke out. IMO, America had reached that stage, the nation is ungovernable and the twits in power can't see it.